Continuing
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/08/today-is-08192026_0566847326.html
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
Snake oil
From Wikipedia
"Snake oil" is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam. Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from the "snake oil" that was sold as a cure-all elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 18th-century European and 19th-century United States entrepreneurs advertised and sold mineral oil (often mixed with various active and inactive household herbs, spices, drugs, and compounds, but containing no snake-derived substances whatsoever) as "snake oil liniment", making claims about its efficacy as a panacea. Patent medicines that claimed to be panaceas were extremely common from the 18th century until the 20th century, particularly among vendors masking addictive drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine, alcohol, and opium-based concoctions or elixirs, to be sold at medicine shows as medication or products promoting health.
posted by me, Kerry Burgess, December 16, 2017 at 6:42 pm
For several days the past week I had decided to make another excursion to downtown Spokane.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my online journal:
May 11, 2018 6:34 am
KENNEDY: These slaves, where do they come from?
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1997 ( ) is 11595 days
23190 = 11595 + 11595
From 11/13/1954 ( ) To 5/11/2018 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, illustrated ) is 23190 days
Stargate SG-1 - "The Enemy Within" - television series episode 2 (alternately episode 3) of Season 1 - Friday 08/01/1997
(from internet transcript)
TITLES
Scene: Hammond's Office
HAMMOND: Come. (Jack walks in.) I can understand how Kawalsky feels. This job gives me a headache too.
O'NEILL: Uh-huh. What's the bad news General?
HAMMOND: Not much for small talk are you Colonel?
O'NEILL: How was your weekend? Get any fishing in?
HAMMOND: I'm rejecting your request to have Teal'c join SG-1. Wasn't my choice. A Colonel Kennedy is en route from the Pentagon right now. He'll be asking your friend some questions.
O'NEILL: What kind of questions?
HAMMOND: What we're up against. Troop strength, technology, weaponry.
O'NEILL: I'd like to know the answers to those questions too, sir. But after they're done asking them...
HAMMOND: There'll be more questions. Possible tests. After all he's carrying the larval form of a hostile, a very formidable enemy, inside his body.
O'NEILL: What kind of tests are we talking about?
HAMMOND: Maybe you haven't noticed Colonel. But he's the first alien species we've actually run into. You don't think that qualifies your friend as a subject of scientific interest?
O'NEILL: Subject?
HAMMOND: He is what he is Colonel.
O'NEILL: With all due respect Sir, I don't think he saved the lives of my team or came over to our side so he could become a damn guinea pig for US military intelligence.
HAMMOND: Back up Colonel. He switched sides once. Are you 100% positive he won't switch back?
O'NEILL: Yes Sir.
HAMMOND: Well you are alone in that assertion. Colonel Kennedy arrives within the hour. I promise Teal'c will be treated with dignity and respect for as long as he remains a guest of this facility. Beyond that, I can't promise a damn thing. Dismissed Colonel.
Scene: Hammond's Office
Hammond, Kennedy and another woman start to walk out into the briefing room.
KENNEDY: Thank you.
Teal'c has been escorted by two guards.
HAMMOND: Welcome Teal'c. This is Colonel Kennedy.
KENNEDY: I'm extraordinarily pleased to meet you, sir.
HAMMOND: Colonel Kennedy's job is to gather information, knowledge, about our potential enemies.
TEAL'C: I offer my knowledge of the Goa'ulds. I offer my skills as a warrior in defeating them. I pledge my honour and my life to this world.
KENNEDY: Well thank you.
HAMMOND: This is just an informal meeting, son. Take a seat.
Teal'c sits down.
KENNEDY: I have a lot of questions to ask so if there are no objections. What can you tell us about the power source the Goa'uld use to power their weapons, ships?
TEAL'C: Nothing.
KENNEDY: I see. Do you yourself have an understanding of the physics behind the Stargate?
TEAL'C: No.
KENNEDY: I see.
TEAL'C: Knowledge of Goa'uld magic is forbidden.
Jack walks up the stairs.
O'NEILL: It's not magic Teal'c. They just want you to think that. Permission to barge in Sir?
KENNEDY: Colonel O'Neill. I was hoping to meet you. Your mission report from Chulak made for the most engrossing analysis of my career.
O'NEILL: Well thanks. What was your favourite part?
HAMMOND: Perhaps now is not the time Colonel?
O'NEILL: General, you know what I went and did? I told Teal'c how we all respect a persons rights in this country.
KENNEDY: I assure you, there is nothing untoward taking place here, Colonel. Please, join us.
O'NEILL: Thank you. Hey Teal'c.
TEAL'C: O'Neill.
O'NEILL: That's Teal'c with an apostrophe. T, E, A, L, apostrophe, C.
HAMMOND: Colonel.
O'NEILL: Yes sir.
KENNEDY: Very well, Teal'c. What can you tell me about the Goa'ulds?
TEAL'C: They rule by force. Their numbers were very few but they are growing.
KENNEDY: How many worlds do they control?
TEAL'C: Many hundreds. Perhaps more.
KENNEDY: And should we expect to encounter these Goa'ulds everywhere we go?
Jack mouths to Hammond, 'we'.
TEAL'C: It is possible. But there are many more worlds the Goa'ulds have no use for. On those worlds the people are abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
KENNEDY: Is there a leadership or Government with which we could negotiate a peace.
TEAL'C: Some, like Apophis, are great Kings and rule over many worlds as their Gods but they have no need for peace. If they could kill you, they would.
KENNEDY: Could they? They have spacecraft, right?
TEAL'C: Yes. Without a Stargate, such a journey would take many months, perhaps even years. It would take many vessels, many slave armies.
O'NEILL: We're not that much of a nuisance, just yet.
KENNEDY: These slaves, where do they come from?
TEAL'C: There is a tale of a primitive world the Goa'uld discovered millenia ago.
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=WeeklyBulletin19541113-01.2.8&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------
excerpt
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/princeton-ai-snake-oil-author-070000702.html
Yahoo! Tech
Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear isn’t thinking machines—it’s that AI exposes who already knows how to think
Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg
Wed, August 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM PDT
Still, Narayanan insisted that real progress is being dismissed. "I think it's tragic to me that that story of how it's giving us superpowers is being missed in all the narratives that are going around."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9ktfzJOa4
The Simpsons - Ralph's Leprechaun
From 12/17/1962 ( ) To 4/22/1985 ( ) is 8162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 8162 days
The Mist (2007)
Jim: Hey, I'm sorry. But how the hell was I supposed to know what you meant? You said you heard something. How was I supposed to know what you meant? You should've said what you meant better.
David Drayton: You got that kid killed! Did you get a good look at it, huh? Did you get a good look at what you did? Huh?
David Drayton: You got that kid killed and I got his blood on me!
Jim: I'm sorry.
David Drayton: Jesus Christ, oh God
Jim: I'm sorry about the kid.
David Drayton: Oh God oh God oh God
Jim: We oughta get out of here
Myron: Hey man, we didn't twist his arm.
David Drayton: Yeah, he's a kid. He's supposed to be stupid. What's your excuse, huh?
[no verbal response from Jim and Myron]
Next:
From 6/14/1956 ( ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 8158 days
8158 = 4079 + 4079
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/2/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Ultimate Imposter" ) is 4079 days
excerpts, previously here by me, Kerry Burgess
From 10/15/1978 ( ) To 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 10080 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Crouch
From 5/21/1969 ( described publicly only by me, the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 3434 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/29/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th president of USA federal government 1974-1977: Executive Order 11848 - Extending the Reporting Date for the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States ) is 3434 days
From 7/23/1963 ( ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from this planet Earth ) is 4730 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1978 ( ) is 4730 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519754/
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica
S1.E5
The Long Patrol
Episode aired Oct 15, 1978
Starbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicating human life in a distant solar system on the other side of a vast asteroid dust field. Starbuck is recalled to duty to pilot the Starchaser, an up-powered reconnaissance viper denuded of weaponry and bearing a voice-activated computer - Computer, Oral Response Activated, known simply as CORA - that can handle the vast increase in performance in the new viper. Starbuck is enthralled by the new viper, but less enthusiastic about CORA, who bears a personality that grates on Starbucks nerves.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-interamerican-studies-and-world-affairs/article/international-significance-of-the-lunar-landing/3C2BB5089E2A7AC66F2C0214B3E95FA5
Cambridge University Press
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 12, Issue 1 January 1970 , pp. 3-30 This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
The International Significance of the Lunar Landing
Foy D. Kohler (a1) and Dodd L. Harvey (a1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/174840Published online: 02 January 2018
The initial impetus came from publication of a letter of July 23, 1963, from Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, to Dr. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, in which Lovell reported the president of the USSR Academy of Sciences had told him “that the Academy believed that it was now appropriate to formulate on an international basis (a) the reasons why it is desirable to engage in the manned lunar enterprise and (b) to draw up a list of scientific tasks which a man on the moon could deal with which could not be solved by instruments alone.”
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica
The Long Patrol
Quotes
Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, let's just say I'm looking forward to a few centons in space... alone. Just me, a fast ship and a fair galaxy.
Captain Apollo: Fast ship you have, the engineers have doubled the range and speed, they even installed a voice-activated computer that can outfly anything the Cylons throw at you.
Lieutenant Starbuck: A hot pilot doesn't need all that electronic felgercarb.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:08 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 08/19/2026
